in Donbas repelled 14 enemy attacks
April 30, 2022, 07:49
During the day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled 14 enemy attacks on the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Eleven tanks, seven artillery systems, twenty-eight armored vehicles and fourteen vehicles were destroyed. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the morning summary on Saturday, April 30.
It is noted that units of Russian troops are moving from the territory of the Belgorod region to the Izyum region. We are talking about units from the Eastern Military District.
In the Slobozhansky direction, the enemy is concentrating his main efforts on holding positions and striking at the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The enemy inflicts air and missile strikes and fires at objects from artillery in the depths of the territory of Ukraine, the positions of our troops along the line of confrontation and in the border areas. The regrouping and strengthening of the groupings of Russian troops continues.
In the Seversk direction, the Russians fired at the positions of Ukrainian troops in the areas of the settlements of Kondratovka, Yekaterinovka, Svarkovo and Belokopytovo.
Russian units tried to launch an offensive in the direction of Suligovka and Long, but were unsuccessful. To cover the groupings of its troops in the Kharkov and Izyum directions, the enemy is trying to deploy air defense forces and means.
In the Eastern Operational Zone, the enemy continues to advance in the Limansky (in the areas of the settlements of Yampol, Ozernoye, Liman), Severodonetsk, where he is trying to complete the capture of Rubizhne, Popasnyansky (in the direction of Kalinovo and Popasnay) and Kurakhovsky (Olenevka and Novomikhailovka) directions. There is no success, the fighting continues.
In the Zaporizhia direction, artillery shelling of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine does not stop.
There was no active enemy offensive in the Yuzhnobuzhsky direction, there are isolated shelling of Ukrainian positions.
On the Bessarabian direction without significant changes.
In the Mykolaiv direction, the enemy activated aerial reconnaissance in the operational depth of the defense positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, presumably to expose the presence and nature of the actions of the reserves.
It is noted that the Armed Forces of Ukraine hit 10 air targets: one aircraft and nine UAVs of the Orlan-10 operational-tactical level.
Earlier, the Pentagon reported that the Russian Federation had strayed from the offensive schedule for several days.